Port Coquitlam: Where Rails Meet Rivers

Ann Turner is the financial and budget manager of the University of
British Columbia Library.

Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, is a relatively new city, having been
separated from its sister city Coquitlam and incorporated in 1913, but
its general location in the midst of the waterways just east of
Vancouver was pivotal in the early development of the area by fur
traders and farmers. Writer-broadcaster Chuck Davis begins his narrative
in the mid-1800s with the arrival of the first white settlers. He takes
an informal approach, weaving the records and reminiscences of local
people and events into an entertaining social and economic history of
the area up to the dawning of the new millennium. The text is liberally
embellished with photographs, and anecdotal sidebars focus on particular
buildings, events, and historical facts. It is very much a history of
the people of Port Coquitlam, and written for them.